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Anterior clinoid processes

Anterior clinoid process
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Upper and posterior surfaces of sphenoid bone (anterior clinoid process visible at top left)
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Upper surface of the base of the skull (label for anterior clinoid process visible at center left. Sphenoid bone is yellow.)
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Identifiers
Latin Processus clinoideus anterior
Dorlands
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p_34/12667364
TA A02.1.05.022
FMA 54693
Anatomical terms of bone
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In the sphenoid bone, the posterior border, smooth and rounded, is received into the lateral fissure of the brain; the medial end of this border forms the anterior clinoid process, which gives attachment to the tentorium cerebelli; it is sometimes joined to the middle clinoid process by a spicule of bone, and when this occurs the termination of the groove for the internal carotid artery is converted into a foramen (carotico-clinoid).

The anterior and posterior clinoid processes surround the sella turcica like the four corners of a four poster bed. Cline is Greek for bed. –oid, as usual, indicates a similarity to. The term may also come from the Greek root klinein or the Latin clinare, both meaning "sloped" as in "inclined."

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This article incorporates text in the public domain from the 20th edition of Gray's Anatomy (1918)



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